² This was the first ^(A)registration when^[a] Quirinius ^(B)was governor of Syria.

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of ^(A)Tiberius Caesar, ^(B)Pontius Pilate ^(C)being governor of Judea, and ^(D)Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

³⁰ Then the king rose, and ^(A)the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them.

²⁶ “Claudius Lysias, to ^(A)his Excellency the governor Felix, ^(B)greetings.

¹² But when Gallio was ^(A)proconsul of Achaia, ^(B)the Jews^[a] made a united attack on Paul and ^(C)brought him before the tribunal,

⁷ He was with ^(A)the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

³⁷ After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of ^(A)the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.

²⁴ So his fame spread throughout all ^(A)Syria, and ^(B)they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and ^(C)pains, ^(D)those oppressed by demons, ^(E)those having seizures, and ^(F)paralytics, and he healed them.